[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[wjhonson at aol.com]

It's a tiny bit highbrow, so I wouldn't expect really that much of it.
When a person (like myself) can easily research a subject and show that 
no he did not win the Fat Butt Award from MTV in 2005 and no he did not 
write a book called How to Have Sex with Dolphins and Get Paid For it, 
and no he did not create the largest online porn site in 1992....

Real references, exist already online with the advent of google but 
more importantly perhaps Google Books.  If you are the sole person to 
have ever referenced item ABC it's very likely that item ABC does not 
actually exist.

Will Johnson



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From: Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 5:25 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:15 AM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> At times what I've done is say "would you be willing to quote the 
exact
> passage with quotation marks?"  Sometimes that works if I'm skeptical
> that they really paraphrased it accurately, and if they are willing to
> do that, but I wouldn't remove it just because I couldn't verify it.
> And I wouldn't remove it just because they said they weren't willing 
to
> do that, or didn't have access to the item any longer.

It's not a great problem I've found patrolling Recent Changes.

I see a lot of people changing num
eric things like sports player's
stats. I loathe sport. So when someone changes an 8 to a 9 I think....
"aaargh". But [[WP:Huggle]] allows you to retrieve the contributions
and you often find the previous three contribs are:

"Suck my cock!"

"Is Yo Mama!!!"

and

"This stinks ass!!!"

So I change the 9 back to an 8 and leave in the edit summary "bad
faith user making numeric edit."

Sorry, I'm getting off the point: we're talking about /referenced
vandalism/... hopefully we don't get too much of that. I fear the
really sneaky guy, though. Most anons are very transparent and easy to
deal with.

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